HOW CAN I HELP CREATE THE kINGDOM OF HEAVEN HERE ON EARTH?

Question

please be nice.

Answer 1

Please forgive the length of my answer to your very important question.

You can help create the kingdom of heaven here on earth by BEING THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE CREATED.

This is exactly what Jesus revealed with His life and teaching. BE THE CHANGE.

How? By recognizing, as He does, that the kingdom of heaven is within YOU....

Culture is habitual behavior of ideas as practiced by individuals, who form larger groups, and which is writ large as those groups identify themselves as parts of a civilization.

What does culture have to do with creating the kingdom of heaven here on earth? Ideas.....true ideas.

As the individual’s ideas about him/her self change, so does the culture in which the individual resides, which in turn affects the groups that form the civilization. How do these ideas become part of a culture? We, as transmitters and receivers of meaning in our various languages, are taught, from childhood on, to AGREE upon the assignment of meaning. For instance the meaning of “blue” (such as "when you see such and such a color, it is blue). Once, while observing a “blue” pen in a plastic holder, it had not really struck me what a hold the habitual meaning of "blue" had on my thinking. Not only did I realize that "blue" is simply a concept taught to me from childhood on, and re-taught every time I see "blue", but I realized that the framework of assigned concepts I call my world view is similarly reengergized every waking moment. I learned in that short moment, that the concept of "blue" does not apply to the reality of the pen's existence just because I habitually recite the NAME I've been taught for one of its attributes. But I realized that's HOW CULTURE IS LEARNED.

Idea by idea. Individual by individual.

You don't change the culture. You change erroneous ideas about yourself within YOU. Then, and ONLY then, can you BE THE CHANGE you've discovered as truth within.... for YOURSELF. Others, within themselves, decide FOR THEMSELVES, to accept or reject the idea they perceive you presenting as Truth.

Consider the following thoughts concerning the ideas many individuals’ in past civilizations used to form their worldviews. We know NOW that their tightly held ideas were based on false information, but THEN these ideas were believed, transmitted, and acted upon AS IF TRUE by virtually everyone. For instance:

Do the Heavens still rotate around the Earth? Not after Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo. Are time and space separate from one another? Not after Einstein. Did you get your vaccines this year? Thanks to Pasteur you did. Is the Earth still flat? Ask Erikson, Columbus or Magellan for the answer. Do you have to study your science homework or read the scriptures of whatever faith you profess in the dark? Not after a little help from Gutenburg and Edison. You can readily see the impact of individuals helping other individuals change their ideas about these things, which eventually results in the civilization changing, right?

The impact of changed ideas on culture and civilization doesn’t end with truths that others found THAT WERE JUST WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED. What would you think the impact would be on a civilization if the individuals who comprised it found the ‘truth that set them free’? Ever since mankind's advent on the Earth, virtually the ENTIRETY of civilization’s concepts concerning existence, governmental enterprise, art, war, medicine, science, economics, philosophy, metaphilosophy, and religion under a SINGLE flaw in our conception, has been what? To avoid, mitigate, delay, prevent or cause what we think of as the death of the body! That's been human existence in a nutshell for EONS!

As author Baird Spalding says, 'Becoming aware of yourself as a spiritual being, offspring of an infinite spiritual system and one with all the powers and capacities within that system, is the very essence of attainment. To grow from the present state of awareness of himself as a material being and into the consciousness that he is a spiritual being contains the full secret of man's attainment.'

That is the secret of creating heaven here on Earth.'

Jesus is the way-shower whose Life (NOW, not as a past memory) continues to remind us ALL to return to conscious, active awareness of this unalterable fact.

I believe we have been just as mistaken to miss the truth about ourselves as Spiritual Beings, as earlier individuals were about those previously mentioned ideas that they erroneously considered true. That is, until someone, like a Galileo, or Magellan or Einstein, or Jesus reveals the error in our thinking.

After flawed ideas have been proven wrong so many times, it should be obvious that the principles of Life operate perfectly, without the slightest deviation, variation, or attenuation at ANY time or in ANY place for ANYBODY! If ALL the principles these people discovered were in perfect operation just as eternally BEFORE as AFTER their discovery and application, this has to include spiritual principles.

What would such a civilization whose culture UNDERSTOOD, TRANSMITTED, AND ACTED UPON TRUE PRINCIPLES BE LIKE?

As Baird Spalding wrote, ' training children to react to constructive ideals and band together to promote harmony, developing the mass instinct in this way, would destroy the root of all unhappiness, misery, want, and war in the world.'

Such a civilization, comprised of adults and children, who understood that they, created as immortal Spiritual Beings, operated under perfect, eternally unchangeable principles, would be nearly unrecognizable.

Almost as unrecognizable as our present civilization would be to those I mentioned above whose ideas and lives helped profoundly change our false views.

Unrecognizable, perhaps, but waiting to be discovered as true, nevertheless!

Here’s another truth: “The kingdom of Heaven is at hand”. When you understand, as Jesus revealed, that the Kingdom of Heaven is right within you, and has ALWAYS BEEN, then IT IS at hand, isn't it?

Not after you die!!

Right where you are, READING THESE WORDS!!

Now imagine, as He does, all of us living as a culture of individuals who understand, transmit and act upon the idea that our Divine heritage as immortal Spiritual Beings, created as the very Spirit and Image of our Creator....is

....Truth, right at hand, awaiting your conscious RE-cognition!!

Sounds like Heaven, doesn't it, Emi.rox?

....Heaven on Earth!

Answer 2

Why would you want to?

You're already going to have an eternity in Heaven. Is waiting 60 or 70 years for a reward of all eternity really so hard?

And if you create the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, why would there be any need to even go to Heaven? Wouldn't that invalidate the entire reason for believing in God and salvation?

God apparently set up the Earth and Heaven to be different for a reason. Why would you want to circumvent God's will?

Usurping God's role, and wanting to make yourself over as the Creator of Heaven sounds pretty hubristic of me. The last guy who tried that wound up villified as the greatest force of evil in the universe. Why would you want to join Satan?

Answer 3

Exactly what you said, be nice, to everyone. When you meet someone pretend you are blind would it really matter the color of his/her skin.

By your example you can start a ripple that will influence people you don't even know, always be on your best behavior, treat others respectfully no matter how they treat you, sometimes when someone is shouting and ranting, a person with a calm voice and unerved appraoch will calm the person/child than yelling and screaming back.

You could read the Bible and try and live the way Jesus said, I don't know what religion to believe in so I choose to believe in Jesus and His teachings, harm no one and help anyone you can. Believe in Him because He is the truth.

Answer 4

doing the Father's will, that is surrendering your own will, and becoming subject to the will of the Father.

When the serpent seed is dislodged, the Kingdom of heaven is here: THE WILL OF THE FATHER IS BEING DONE HERE ON EARTH as it is done in heaven.

Answer 5

Just by being loving and kind to all people on your path of life.Giving to thoose in need.We have alot of homeless living in our community.The sad truth is most have mental illness and can not work to earn a living and people judge them so badly.
If you see someone in need dont turn your back and be humble to all.

Answer 6

The kingdom of heaven, is heaven...The kingdom of God is in every Christian...The Kingdom of God is Gods way of doing thing and being right...

Answer 7

You can't. The key here is that this is GOD'S Kingdom, not man's. Nothing man does will affect the Kingdom of God.

Answer 8

Pray
Worship God
Ask him for gifts of the spirit
go help the poor
the blind
the lame
the hurting
the outcasts
Preach the gospel to them
Pray for them and believe for them to be healed
Cast out demons in Jesus name

Mark 16

Answer 9

Going to be expensive. You're going to have a difficult time buying all those gold bricks to make the streets with.

Answer 10

Just start living your life by the Word of God. Be an example.

Answer 11

bring mixed children into the world,because the plan is that we will all come together as one and not be divided